Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celestica enables the world's best brands through a customer-centric approach and solutions for complex challenges. The Global Program Management Consultant role manages global capacity planning, coordinates cross-functional data gathering, supports executive reporting, and helps drive early customer engagement and onboarding initiatives. The position also requires managing multiple strategic projects and resolving planning issues through data analysis and matrixed communication.
Responsibilities
- Global Capacity Management: Owns the update execution, meticulous maintenance, and validation of the highly critical, large-scale Global Capacity Planning file
- Cross-Functional Data Gathering: Partners directly with various Business Units (BUs) to gather, interpret, and integrate their future demand and growth projections
- Site Collaboration: Communicates regularly with manufacturing sites globally to capture localized operational capabilities and facilitate forward-looking capacity planning
- Executive Reporting Support: Assists the Director in translating massive, intricate spreadsheets into clear, structured, and high-level summaries ready for executive reviews
- Early Engagement & Onboarding: Supports strategic initiatives surrounding early engagement and the smooth transition/integration of new customers
- Multi-Project Handling: Simultaneously manages multiple ongoing tasks, operational streams, and strategic planning timelines effectively
- Proactive Problem Solving: Identifies data discrepancies or out-of-plan conditions early, applying strong analytical skills to resolve complex planning bottlenecks
- Matrix Communication: Coordinates and drives alignment across matrixed internal groups—including Finance, Manufacturing, Business Units, and Executive Leadership
Skills
- Exceptional proficiency in navigating, organizing, and auditing massive, highly detailed Excel workbooks. Must be comfortable maintaining meticulous data integrity within complex (though not necessarily structurally convoluted) models
- Superior ability to break down vague or expansive operational inputs into clear, logical planning steps
- A fast learner who can rapidly grasp Celestica's global footprints, site capabilities, and internal planning ecosystems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to present complex operational realities clearly to executive stakeholders
- A self-motivated "go-getter" who displays high levels of initiative, flexibility, and autonomy in a shifting environment
- Excellent organizational skills to manage competing priorities and keep overlapping long-term planning schedules on track
- Strong understanding of data analytics, market dynamics, and manufacturing capacity constraints
- Likely there will be a significant amount of travel between customer and Celestica locations
- Nine plus years of relevant experience in program management, operations planning, business analytics, or strategic supply chain roles
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Data Analytics), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience
- This is a remote position, with travel as necessary
- We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast
Benefits
- Remote position with travel as necessary
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